Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1992 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1992A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 2nd November 1992Work out 15% of 60.
- 3rd November 1992Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 4th November 1992State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 5th November 1992State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 6th November 1992Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 7th November 1992Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 8th November 1992A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 9th November 1992A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 10th November 1992Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 11th November 1992Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 12th November 1992Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 13th November 1992A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 14th November 1992A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 15th November 1992Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 16th November 1992In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 17th November 1992The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 18th November 1992Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 19th November 1992Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 20th November 1992A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 21st November 1992A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 22nd November 1992A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 23rd November 1992A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 24th November 1992A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 25th November 1992Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 26th November 1992Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 27th November 1992State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 28th November 1992Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 29th November 1992Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 30th November 1992Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.